Andy Roddick is Man-Candy, Apparently. I Didn't Realize...

I've never paid much attention to Andy Roddick. He's no Andre Agassi. He's no Pete Sampras. Hell, he's not even a Michael Chang.

Roddick has always struck me as the male version of Anna Kournikova - which is to say, someone who gets discussed more for their looks than for their tennis. (For any of you Texas Hold'em players out there, I like it when people refer to Ace-King as 'the Anna Kournikova' hand - not only are the initials the same, A.K., but also because it "looks good, never wins").

Although, since Roddick has actually WON a tennis tournament in his lifetime, unlike Anna, it's somewhat unfair to compare the two.

Nevertheless, I'm somewhat baffled by the hate that Roddick is receiving from certain circles of fans because he is dating Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker.

But according to The Big Lead, that's precisely what is happening.

Here's a sampling of some of the comments:

* “Is she legal?”

* “You complain that she want a serious gf, but you keep dating the same girl over again: 20 yo blonde swimsuit model. That’s stupidity: doing the same thing over and over again (literally) and expecting similar results. I don’t expect this to last. He should try to date a tennis player. It certainly wouldn’t be a bad idea. At least they understand the game and everything. Ana Ivanovic or Tati Golovin would be good matches I think.”

* “I just have one question what is it with tennis players and models just in general? It has been going on since tennis was practically invented. Is it err like doctors date nurses etc. etc???????”

Besides making the observation that those message-board fans clearly are borderline mentally-challenged, I will answer the first question: "Is she legal?"

Yes, she is - Brooklyn was born in 1987, and since she's already been exploited by a corporate publishing machine like Sports Illustrated, I would say she's most likely wise beyond her years.

Actually, there is one other comment that I have, which is: he DID try dating a tennis player, and that was Maria Sharapova - and that didn't work out any better than his relationship with Mandy Moore. And while both of those ladies are very fetching, Brooklyn Decker is ten pounds of hotness in a five-lb. bag. You decide for yourself.

(By the way, if you think that this blog post wasn't a thinly-veiled excuse to post pictures of attractive ladies, well, you'd be wrong.)





You would also be wrong if you assumed that realizing the young lady below is barely out of her teens and was born the same year 'Teen Wolf' was released, doesn't depress me like all git out. Because those facts do depress me. But I promise that I'll struggle to work through it. That's what Zoloft and therapists are for, no?


---JohnnyU